As you can see from the examples above the number of terms found is larger when the number of question marks increases.

The number of question marks plus the number of normal characters equals the length of the word to be matched.

The Lingo Query is case-insensitive. A,B,C, etc. matches a, b, c etc.

The lingo query can best be compared with the horizontal rows in the Lingo (TV show) matrix (see below).

Lingo TV Show

Limitations

Currently it’s not possible to enter a question mark at the first position of the query. This may be a Lucene limitation. I’m still investigating the problem. Once I know a solution for this problem, I will install a new version here.